The Music Instinct
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Recommended reading alongside the event Over and Over and Over and Over.
Philip Ball provides the first comprehensive, accessible survey of what is known – and what is still unknown – about how music works and why it is indispensible to humanity.
Looking at:
Where does music come from?
Do melodies follow rules?
Is music a language?
Can music in itself say anything at all?
"impressively engaging...it will be the rare music lover that does not come away without having learned meant interesting things" --Guardian, February 2010
"wonderful account of why music matters... one of the finest and most versatile of current nonfiction writers" --Sunday Times, February 2010
"publishing would be a far better place if popular science books were all as truly scientific in spirit as this" --The Independent, February 2010
452 pages, hardback.
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